Dozens of freshmen engineering students to test their design class cars over "Hill Climb" race course at Stevens on December 14th
It may not be the "Indianapolis 500," but for freshmen engineering students at Stevens Institute of Technology, the annual "Hill Climb" engineering design car competition is the main event of their first year in college.
Dozens of student teams will test their model vehicles, which they have built during one of their introductory design courses, Dec. 14, at 2:00 p.m., in the second floor lobby area of the Wesley J. Howe Center on Stevens’ Hoboken campus. The media is invited to this event.
The "Hill Climb" project is a semester-long competition for the students to design, build and test a vehicle that will travel a track comprised of both level and sloping sections at maximum speed. Due to the inclines on the track, the students will need an optimum design to involve shifting gears with a two-speed transmission. Each car includes a microprocessor for the gear control. Students must learn how to properly program the microprocessor to be able to anticipate gear shifts over the course.
| WHAT: | Freshmen Engineering Design |
| "Hill Climb" Auto Race | |
| WHO: | Dozens of freshmen engineering students and their professors |
| WHEN: | Dec. 14, 1998 |
| 2:00 p.m. | |
| WHERE: | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Second Floor Lobby/Wesley J. Howe Center | |
| Hoboken, NJ | |
| (Minutes north of the Hoboken PATH Station and across the Hudson River from midtown Manhattan) | |
| NOTE: | : The competition will be on a race track with inclines and steep hills. The track’s length is 40 feet. Several teams of students will begin testing their cars at 2:00 p.m. |
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University TM , lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research. The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.
Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts. Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world. Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu and www.stevens.edu/press.
